reid, speaker boehner, nancy pelosi, and mitch mcconnell. everybody worked hard on this, and i appreciate it. i want to thank you for your hard work. under this law, 98% of americans and 97% of small businesses will not see income taxes go up. millions of families will receive tax credits. companies will continue to receive tax credits for the research they do and a clean energy jobs they create. 2 million americans who were out of work cut out there on the pavement every day are going to continue to receive unemployment benefits as long as they are actively looking for a job, but i think we recognize this is one step in the broader effort to strengthen our economy and brought an opportunity for everybody. the fact is the deficit is still too high, and we are still investing too little in the things that we need for the economy to grow as fast as it should. that is why speaker dinner and i originally tried to negotiate a larger agreed -- speaker boehner and i originally tried to negotiate a larger deal while providing investments in areas li